Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton has found herself behind bars.
Retton was arrested earlier this month for DUI in West Virginia.
The former Olympian was arrested in Marion County, West Virginia, for “driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs,” according to records posted online by the West Virginia Magistrate Court system.
The 57-year-old Fairmont native received her release on a $1,500 personal recognizance bond.
Marion County, W. Virginia | Retired Olympian gymnast, Mary Lou Retton was popped for DUI. The 57-yr- old was the 1st American woman to win a gymnastics medal. During the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, she won 5 medals in total; 1 gold in the individual all-around, 2 silver & 2… pic.twitter.com/9lnNXytAyM
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Her arrest comes less than two years after Retton was “fighting for her life” during a battle with a rare form of pneumonia that left her hospitalized in intensive care.
In 2023, she received an outpouring of public support, including a crowdfunding campaign led by her daughter that raised over $200,000 in a single day.
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Mary Lou Retton Is An American Icon
Former Olympic gold medalist Mary Lou Retton was arrested for DUI in May. She was charged with one count of “driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs.”
Retton rose to prominence during the 1984 Olympics, where she became the first American woman to win the gold medal in the gymnastics all-around event. At that time, she scored two perfect 10s in the floor exercise and vault to narrowly defeat Romanian Ecaterina Szabo to win the gold.
She won four additional medals at the 1984 Olympics, including two silver medals and two bronze medals.
Her performance at the 1984 Olympics garnered major attention, and she was named Sports Illustrated’s Sportswoman of the Year. She also became the first woman to be featured on the cover of a Wheaties cereal box.
Retton retired in 1986.
Mary Lou Retton was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997 and became the first woman inducted into the Houston Sports Hall of Fame in 2020.
